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WILLIAM FAULKNER, 0F VEVAY, `INDIANA..

Letters Patent llo. 74,065, datedA February 4, 1868.

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TO WHOM IT CONCERN:

Be it known `that I, WILLIAM FAULKNER, of Vevey, Switzerland county, Indiana, have invented a new and useful Apia'ry; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to a. construction ofbee-hive building or apiary, adapted to secure perfect ventilation,- together with an equable temperature and freedom from vermin.

In the accompanying drawing, anapiary embodying my invention is represented by vertical section.

A is a pit in the ground, and preferably walled, as shown; B are posts, which support and form part of the building, and terminate in iron pins C, which rest in cups D to contain tar orno'ther viscid material for the exclusion of ants and other vermin. E is the apartment for theA hives, havinga oor,-F, with a central hatchway, G, whose sides extend downward nearly to the oor of the pit. The hives H may rest upon the door of the apiary in the manner shown, or on a raised shelf or dais, or he suspended from joists or brackets. I is a shutter or register, by which the hatchway may be more or less closed or contracted- 4 The ioor F, walls K, and ceiling L, are made double, and packed with chaff or other non-conductor of heat.` The roof'M may be of the ridge-form, as represented, or of the hip, shed, or other form. N is a iiue, which/commencing at orfnear the level of the ceiling, passes upward through the roof, and is surn'iounted by a. hood or cowl, 0, to keep out the weather, and a wire or other screen, l?, to keep out moths and other intruders.` The iue is capableof being closed or contracted, by means of a register' or damper, Q. R is an inner, and It an o'uterldoor, with an intervening space Vor vestibule between them. S is an aperture (of which there may be several) for the entrance and exit ofthe bees. o

The advantages of this apiary are of a very decided character; for example, the entering air being cooled by being made to traverse the pit A, and the heated air boing allowed free exit by -way of the flue N, and the apartment, moreover, being protccte'ii from vicissitudes oftemperature bythe insulating-pitfalls K and ceiling L, the bees are enabled, even during the hottest weather, to keep up their labors actively within the hives, instead of hanging in large masses outside, as they commonly do on every sultry day or night, and hence they lay up o. much larger store of honey, and being in strong force, are enabled to keep out the miller and other intruders.

When the cold weather approaches, the apiaris t contracts the various adits, and thus enables Vthe bees to keep up the desired temperature by the natural warmth of their own bodies.` The bees4 being thus kept comfortably warm, require of course less nutriment than if exposed tojthe full rigors of winter. An interior modication of my invention is 'seen at X.

I claim herein as new, and of my invention-- 1. The provision, in an apiary, of the sunk hatchway G, pit A, and ilue N, together with suitable registers, i

orA their equivalents, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. i

2. In combination with the elements of ela-im iirst, I claim the insulating-walls K and ceilings L, asr'and for the purpose explained. i

3. An apiary supported on posts, which rest in cups D, in connection with a pit or depression in the ground, and a hatchway, as represented.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand. v

4WILLIAM FAULKNER.

Witnesses:

Guo. H. Kmenr, JAMES H. LAYMAN. 

